Will Trump deport the 3500 Ghanaians on deportation orders?
As some Americans and other people around the world are struggling to come to terms with the election of Donald Trump as the 45 president of the US, one issue on the watch list of what he would do when elected will be to tackle immigration issues more vigorously.
Donald Trump holds a strong position on immigration and pushed it during his election campaign. He was consistent in saying he will deport all illegal immigrants living in the US.
Now he is president-elect, will he follow through with his threats? If he does, 3,500 Ghanaians on deportation orders in the US will be deported. These Ghanaians, US officials say have abused the terms of their visas.
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson is reported elsewhere to have said the following: “One thing that I do think that Ghanaians need to be aware of is, I think the president-elect, as I mentioned, is likely to be more rigid about illegal immigration. We have a lot of Ghanaians who have overstayed their visas in the US and I think that they need to be concerned about whether they would be allowed to remain illegally. My guess is they will be given some options but the president will be serious about asking those who’ve violated their visa status to depart.”
Recently, some 180 Ghanaians and Liberians were deported from the US in handcuffs and brought to Ghana.
If Trump plays it tough, he is also likely to apply a law – Section 243(d) of the immigration code, that enables the US government to deny visas to government officials of countries who refuse to take back their citizens that have been deported from the US.
Ghana is one of 23 countries cited by US immigration authorities for refusing to take back their citizens. The US government in October this year triggered the law and has restricted visas to officials of the government of The Gambia and their associates.
The countries on the list that ghanabusinessnews.com, has been able to put together through research, include Iraq, Algeria, Bangladesh, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Cuba and St. Lucia. The others are China, Zimbabwe, India, Somalia, Cuba, and Iran.
By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi
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